Island Park

Garrett trying to sneak up on a mama caribou and her babies. He got pretty close(about ten yards) then they took off. He just wanted to "wide one of dem." He was a little disappointed.
My morning run route. So pretty. The flowers on the side of the road were so fragrant.
Mesa Falls. So amazing to me. It was kind of a scary view.
Our only major car stoppage in Yellowstone. He didn't seem to be inconvenienced at all by all of the cars. Kids loved this.
Waiting patiently for Old Faithful...this lasted for about five minutes for Garrett and then he wanted me to hold him while he whined about how he was so tiwed and his tummy was "gwumbwing." He pulled his head off my shoulder for all of one minute to watch Old Faithful's show.
Hansen was thrilled as well. :-)

We just got back from our trip to Island Park, ID. What a beautiful part of the world. Highlights for me were getting on a wake board for the first time in a LONG time....taking a morning run in the fresh air(filled with wildflowers)...watching Garrett and Sam have a little man time skipping rocks...watching my husband bring in a big beautiful rainbow at Henry's Fork...tubing with the kids(Molly in particular is fun because she gets anxious for unknown stuff like her mom...and then loves it after she dares to do it)...roasted marshmallows...the big bison strolling down the middle of the road at Yellowstone. What a fun time to be with family and enjoy a beautiful part of our country.

Best "Cweaner" in da whole wuud!

Our little Garrett does his business on the potty backwards.(this was after a suggestion by a friend when I was potty training my first boy...this keeps all of the pee going into the toilet...it was a great suggestion). Well, yesterday he decided to jump on backwards and was in a hurry. He didn't quite make it all the way on and proceeded to do his number 2's on the floor in a little pile. When he realized what he had done, he called for us to come help him. My ever so kind husband went up and made him stay on the potty while he cleaned up the mess. After he was done, Garrett looked up with his big eyes and said "Sowwy Dad, it was an accident." He then told his Dad with a lot of enthusiasm, "Dad you are the best cweaner in da whole wooooorld!" Thanks Garrett. Thanks.

My Infomercial Girl

So my little Molly Ann has been cracking me up the past few weeks. I have to preface this with we have a little rabbit ears for our TV reception and so we get these weird channels(half of which are in spanish) but there is one in particular that only has Infomercials as their commercials. Always selling something. Well these are played all the time, even during kids shows. Not exactly smart advertising when you are trying to sell the "Titan Peeler" to a 3-5 year old audience, but whatever. Well, she keeps telling me "You need to get the..." Today it was, wow mom, you have cracks in your feet, they have this thing on TV that you get and you rub it on and it makes your feet like a "baby's bottom." Yesterday, she told me we need to get some "snake" that goes down the drain and gets clogs out. "It works EVERY time mom." It is hilarious. Today she told me about "whitening toothpaste that is safe for the whole family!" I have a walking infomercial in my house. She really has been growing up a lot lately, and had to post so I can remember her at this age.

Pictures!

Just wanted to document a few pics from the last little while. In order:

-Fourth of July fireworks with cousins.

-Garrett and his goggle obsession

-Garrett falling asleep after "trying" to clean up

-Molly's make-up experiment at the neighbor's house(she walked in and i thought she was having an allergic reaction...I thought her airway would swell up at any minute...but nope, just pinkon the eyebrows)

-Cute Hansen boy

-Cleaning Daddy's car for Father's Day

-All three at Grandma O's for a "third of July" Picnic.

Molly's finger

In what seemed like Molly's 100th trip to the ER in her lifetime, she ended up squirting the ER doc in the face with blood.  :-)  She slammed her finger in the door(well, to be exact, her brother slammed her finger in the door).  She cried like crazy, but you never know with her.  She gets poked by her brother and can do the same thing sometimes.  But then after an hour, I knew it was actually bad.  After icing it, and motrin, I thought it would be okay.  Well, after a couple of days of her not doing much and waking up in the middle of the night, we decided to put a hole in the nail.  We burned a needle and poked it through.  Lots of blood came out, and we thought it was possibly fixed.  But no.  It just stayed really black...solid black.(you'll notice the coloring is now at least varied)  It was so hideous.  These pictures are after her visit to the ER where they said we just needed to make a bigger hole.  Of course. :-)  When they poked it through the nail, it shot right into the docs face...then he gave it a little squeeze and shot the nurse right in the eye.  So, needless to say, quite a bit of pressure behind that nail. She is doing great, and it now just looks like a gross nail...not the hideous almost gangrenous thing we were calling her finger.  Hooray.  

Slept through...

So I love waking up at 6 am...and getting to sleep through the night for the first time in what seems like a year.  I sleep horrible when I am pregnant...and Hansen is almost 3 months....so 9 hours of sleep is like sweet sweet heaven.  :-)  Way to go Hansen.  So proud.  I am also putting on his paddy cake video.  He is just learning to laugh and talk.  So fun.

Graduation!

Our first born has graduated!  Big time stuff.  After a few songs, I was taking Garrett to the potty and then Hansen needed to eat.  So I got to see about half of it. But hey...there will be more graduations right?!  She did great and in the middle of it all, right before another song, she stands up(at this point I am thinking,  What are you doing?  As is every other parent)  She calmly walks over to the corner of that huge rug and folds it back down(it had been kicked up and no OCD girl of mine was going to have one thing out of place for her big day) :-)  Great day! Another great part was the girl next to Molly wouldn't sing at all(mind you they sang 15 or so songs).  Her parents just had this look on their faces while they held their cameras...hoping....just hoping.  :-)